Improvement in horseshoes



c.LH. PERKINS.

HORSESHOE.

' No. 192,127. Patented June 19,1871

' 'mvzmom N-PETERS. PKOTD-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON: D C.

. elevation of same,

, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OHARLES'H. PERKINS, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSESHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 192,127, dated June 19,1877; application filed December 18, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES H. PERKINS, ofProvidence, in the State of Rhode Island, have made certain new anduseful Improvements in Horseshoes; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing specification, taken in connection with the drawings making apart of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description-thereof.

Figure 1 shows the under side of the shoe. Fig. 2 is a sectionalelevation of the 'shoe. Fig. 3 is a plan of double blank. Fig. 4 is anshowing inside of upper half of blank.

The object of my invention is to produce a shoe from the smallestpossible amount of metal by rolling it in the Well-known form of adouble blank, in such a manner that the thickness of any particular partof theshoe will be as near as possible in proportion to the strain it iscalled upon to withstand.

The greatest strain and wear upon the shoe comes at the toe anddecreases gradually toward the heel, I

To accomplish the desired result I roll the blank in theform shown byFigs. 3 and 4 of the drawings-that is to say, in form tapering at thetoe, while at the heel it presents a broad and gentle slope, as shown bythe drawings.

Thus it will be seen that no more than the necessary quantity of metalis used, and that the thickness of anyone part of the shoe is equal tothe amount of strain and wear that it is required to sustain.

What I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A horseshoe constructed from blanks, substantially as described, withinner beveled edges A-that is to say, almost perpendicular upon theinside at the toe, while at the heel it presents a broad and gentleslope, as set forth.

O. H. PERKINS. Witnesses: HENRY G. KNIGHT, WALTER B. VINoENT.

